The Princeton Seminary Bulletin, 2003, Vol. 24 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Princeton Seminary Bulletin, 2003, Vol. 24Consider the matter of biblical authority. This is a big issue today in the Presbyterian Church (u The problem is that the appeal to the author ity of Scripture made by some is heard by others as a heteronomous effort to coerce their views on a variety of topics. As such it turns them off. My suspicion is that this might not be the case if today's church members (and today's pastors?) were people deeply nurtured by the devotional reading of the Bible. In our Reformed tradition, for example, we once viewed Bible reading as a means of grace, meaning as a medium of God's redeeming love to those who read the witness of the Scriptures to Jesus Christ in faith.My father read the Bible that way. When he died in 1973, I found among his personal possessions a dog-eared copy of his New Testament that gave evidence of being read, marked, and inwardly digested. Now he never heard of the four source hypothesis that alleges to solve the Synoptic problem. And he probably believed to the end that Paul wrote Colossians, Ephesians, 2 Thessalonians - and the Pastorals to boot. But all of that is irrelevant to my point, which is that he experienced God's continuing grace toward him as he read the Scriptures in their central witness to Jesus Christ, in whom he believed and unto whom he lived and died. For my father, the authority of Scripture was not so much a theological dogma as it was an experience of the transforming and sustaining power of the Spirit that came to him daily through reading the Bible.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.